Bonkers Blog October 2014

Thanks
to a couple of councillors Tweeting about it, we know that
Bexley council met in
secret last night to discuss the proposal to build houses in the long abandoned
Erith Quarry. That shouldn’t come as any great surprise, we know that all public
meetings in Bexley are rehearsed beforehand, it was admitted during one meeting
a couple of years ago and I have an email in the files from a councillor which
confirms it, and not through an accidental slip of the pen.

I
said to a councillor very recently that I hoped that webcasting will be
abandoned after the trial period because councillors now curb their
tongues. You can see the sort of thing we are missing from councillor Hackett’s Tweet.
“Sod the affordable housing” said councillor John Wilkinson.

Whether any more information will leak out is hard to say, probably not, councils
hate the idea of honesty and transparency. Another quarry not far away is also to get the redevelopment
treatment and the council there has
slapped a Court Injunction on a councillor
who wanted to let his electorate know what is going on.